tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30420806777507597462012-03-02T16:21:56.026+11:00Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419561959977481497noreply@blogger.comBlogger2671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3042080677750759746.post-24146278578111665222012-02-14T21:20:00.003+11:002012-02-15T19:52:10.406+11:00

I Love Tuesdays is having a little holiday. I need some time to recharge my blogging batteries so forcing a few weeks of non-bloggness upon myself. It's the usual story of work busyness combined with housework combined with social weekends ahead. I'm not cranky yet but there is the strong possibility if I don't take some time out! See you soon! Jackie Ps. By the time I start blogging again

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I've just downloaded the blogger iPhone app and so my pointer finger is bringing you this post all on its lonesome while my mind is ticking over at the concept of an iPad. This new app may lead to more photo only posting or if I continue to type then perhaps it will lead to more RSI. Keeping it simple, I've just posted a photo or two of a sculpture which kind of summed up how I felt the other

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Sometimes the stars align and fun, creative things just happen to find me. It doesn't happen a lot, but when it does happen I feel like the world is only filled with lovely people who know how to have  safe, happy, smiley good-times.   On Saturday the Boyfriend and I were at Stanwell Park beach, just north of Wollongong. Upon reaching the lookout above the stunning cliffs, what should we find

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I’m totally addicted to vegetable pancakes at the moment. They’re a super blend ofhealthy-ness and naughty-ness. So if you’ve been looking for a new way to get somevegies in your body, give this recipe a go. It will make you four large pancakes.  Ingredients:·      2 bags of quick steam vegies·       1/2 onion·      1 cup plain flour·      2 teaspoons baking powder·      3/4 cup low fat milk·

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I had a great time making these t-shirts for the boyfriend. They were meant to be part of his birthday present but I got so excited about them that I couldn't resist showing him right away! I think he looks quite dashing here, just like a catalogue model.

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This would have to be one of the more freaky pieces of art that I have ever come across. I went for a lunchtime walk last week through the Australian National University and, behind the School of Art, I almost had my head taken off by this hanging monster. I guess it was my own fault as I had not stuck to the paths like a good public servant should but why would you when you can find creative

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Ever dreamt of being a creative, fashion-student-type person? I have. I love the idea of sewing bits and pieces together to make exciting originals but to be honest, I've never really sewn much to cause a stir (or even a mild head turn for that matter). I did make a skirt once but then I wore it bike riding and it got grease all up the back—bad decision. Last week however, I did get to role

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Isn't sugar amazing? It makes me happy at work, makes me sociable after a long day and now it even makes gorgeous exhibitions for me to go and see. Yay for sugar! Is there anything that sugar can't do? Mmmmm I guess it's pretty bad at helping me loose weight but apart from that it seems quite versatile. I hope you like these colourful pictures that I recently took of the we miss you magic

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I'm starting 2012 with new hair and it feels amazing! For the past few years I've had long blonde hair with a few layers framing my face. If I was feeling particularly daring I would also get a streak or two of a lighter shade of yellow - I know what you are thinking...wow... how completely crazy! She's out of control! After turning 30 in early December I started to get bit upset with myself

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I guess this is the time of year where everyone writes about their new year resolutions and how many crafty projects they aim to create and blog about in the coming year. That's a bit too much blogging commitment for me I'm afraid, however I have got a resolution to declare to the world.   Last year I had a pretty easy job of achieving my new years resolution of getting a car as someone kindly

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Oh my golly gosh I am so absolutely exhausted!  The holidays have been a big blur of cake, presents and flights. My feet are sore and the house is a mess yet I still wish that I wasn't going back to work tomorrow. I find it quite amazing that my ten day break is already over - I never seem to get all the crafty things done that I intend to (although I did do a lot of stitching which I will put

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Wood is a pretty cool material for craftiness. To me, wood resonates of history, purity and worldly goodness. It feels organic and makes me feel closer to the natural environment around me.  Crafting with wood seems to create a depth or an earthiness to work and inspire emotion that other materials just don't carry.  Sometimes I feel like I am surrounded by so much plastic in my life.

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Yay! I made it to the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Brisbane to see the Yayoi Kusama exhibition. I talked about this in November after downloading the GoMA app and had been super looking forward to it. Boyfriend, Boyfriend's Sister and Boyfriend's Friend came with me and we had a surprisingly interactive day out. As you will see from the photos below, Kusama is very interested in dots. From a

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My sister gave Escher the cat the bestest Christmas present EVER. He got his very own aeroplane to zoom around the house in! This cardboard playhouse kit is made by suckuk, who also make a fire engine, a tank and a car version for your furry adventurer. The plane was quite easy to put together (although I didn't actually do it myself!) and surprisingly, Esch didn't jump out of it as soon as he

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Merry Christmas Everyone! Boyfriend and I had a lovely Christmas Eve with my family in Melbourne yesterday. My mum had the house looking stunning with Christmas decorations galore - at every turn there were angels, cuddly Santas and snowmen waiting to catch our eyes. They had been thoughtfully placed throughout the house to create a Christmas atmosphere without being over-the-top. It was truly

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I tried my first gingerbread house on the weekend and it was a disaster! The house had about ten good minutes of brilliance before the roof slid off both sides and the walls buckled. So much to learn for next year! The Santa Bakery Kit that I got from Woolworths promised me a lot and although the house itself wasn't that magical, the kit did deliver me a great hour of fun. It also gave my

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 Its been a big week of baking!  For someone that's supposed to be eating healthy, I've been melting a lot of butter and sifting a bit too much flour. Not much can be done about it though as it's just that time of year. All you can do in December is have fun trying new recipes and just accept that there is a strong possibility that your waistline is going to increase.  Here is a recipe for some

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Here are some of the gingerbread men that I baked for my Full Moon Party. We had operation-men, skeleton-men, kidnapped-men, mummy-men and some rest-in-peace biscuits! I baked them using a basic gingerbread recipe and a cutter from the local kitchen shop. Once cooled, some icing pens provided an easy way to decorate. Very yum!

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The Full Moon party was a success! Boyfriend and I managed to squish squash 50 plus people in our little house courtyard, carport and a rogue camp in the garden. There was much laughter and chit chat galore as our guests dined on cupcakes, biscuits, sausage rolls, party pies and quite a large quantity of beer. One of the unexpected highlights of the night was the Boyfriends very artistic art

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Boo!  Tonight I am having my annual Christmas party and this year, there is even going to be a lunar eclipse! Boyfriend and I decided to go with a Full Moon theme which covers night time/vampire/space etc. As you can imagine, it's quite a broad theme so I'm expecting to see some super costumes. Photos to follow! So I have started doing some baking and this is the first result - Marshmallow Ghosts

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Christmas and birthdays involve a lot of detailed, fancy packaging. More often than not, these little paper or cardboard treasures get thrown in the bin without a second thought. How sad! What a waste of crafty potential! It was my birthday yesterday and the Boyfriend's lovely sister had shipped me down two gorgeous mugs with colourful babushka dolls featured on the front. As well as being

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I'm quite taken with stencil and poster street art at the moment. It just shows more planning and organisation than regular graffiti. As a fan of lists and detail, I like the fact that effort goes into these.  It's not like someone was just passing a wall and happened to have a poster and glue in their bag or a perfectly sized stencil. It's possible for sure but a more likely situation is that

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This is my diary for 2012. It's made by Frankie and is colourful and cute. I find it quite inspirational to stare at and there is a super handy expandable pocket at the back from my bus ticket. Thanks to some very organised friends of mine, I already have some party dates for January and February to write in. Just love it!

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Just loving these WeWood wooden watches.  As someone that seems to be allergic to everything, a wooden watch presents a safe, non-itchy option for a classy timepiece. Oh, and they plant a tree for every watch sold. Good for the environment and their business sustainability I guess! Check out the WeWood website for the catalog.

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I've just finished my rocket ship baby top and it's ready to take off!  It's far from perfect (as you will see from the photos) but it was my first attempt at cross-stitch so I have decided to cut myself some slack. Inspired by my friend Katrina and a design from Isabelle Leloup's 'Cross-stitch and Embroidery for Babies, Toddlers and Children', I have spent the past few evenings stitching away

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Yesterday the Boyfriend and I booked our flights for the Christmas holidays. We will be spending equal time in each of our home cities with Christmas day combining both a Melbourne breakfast and a Brisbane dinner.  We are clearly displaying the give and take which modern relationships require although I feel the itinerary is hardly a compromise for me. I love visiting Brisbane as the city is

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These are some photos of my mum's birthday cake made by a very talented friend of mine. The birthday party was a zoo theme and so an elephant cake was just perfect.   The cake itself was chocolate mud with a raspberry ganache. Each mouthful was an incredibly satisfying experience that brought a rosy hue to the cheeks of every one in the room. The elephant's expression was so adorable that no one

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I've been in Melbourne for the last 36 hours for my mum's birthday party. We had a lovely outing to the Melbourne Zoo where I decided to work on my hipstamatic skills. I'm finding it more difficult than I thought I would, as the lens viewer doesn't really reflect the result. It's also a bit tricky to remember what all the filters, film and flashes do. I need a notebook to write this stuff down.

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The Boyfriend and I took our new car off road last weekend. He thought I would get panicky about how dirty the car was getting but I played it cool and we saw some lovely countryside. We even had a picnic complete with a cup of tea from a thermos. It was all very adventurous. With my trusty iPhone never far away, I snapped these shots with my Hipstamatic app. I'm really loving the simplicity of

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Check out these great cakes. Without a lesson, my friend Joey made these masterpieces for some pals birthday parties.  They were particularly well suited cakes. Sarah and Tucc are both amazing with scrabble and are continually beating me at Words with Friends. I'm pretty determined though and feel that my luck is about to change (surely it has to some time right?).  From all accounts, the cakes

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The Boyfriend was on a bridge and I was down below. I had been at sewing class and he had been at the gym. A happy meeting followed by a lovely burger date-night. Just great!

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Is it a piece of art? Is it a giant blob? Well, I guess it's both really. I visited the National Portrait Gallery today and took this snap of Geo Face Distributer (2009) by James Angus. I've always been a big colour and texture fan with a distinct leaning towards oddly shaped modern art. I love bright colours, particular block colour or large patterns. Bright single colours seem to make people

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I'm going to have a busy craft day today. It's been a while since I locked myself in the craft room; I just seem to go in and out of my crafty phases lately. Sometimes I'll have a million projects swimming around my head and then sometimes I'm scratching around for inspiration that doesn't seem to come. My craftiness is not 'even spread' at all, it's very 'peaks and troughs' so I guess I'm a bit

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My cousin recently had the joy of visiting New York where she took part in an embroidery workshop. She made two of the most gorgeous and insightful pieces I have ever seen so I just had to share them here. I think they're rather dreamy  and would make great t-shirt designs or perhaps decoration for a calico bag. Check out Simone's blog for more details however here is a quick quote on her

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With their painted personalities and big wide smiles, a knitting nancy takes my fancy. A knitting nancy is a handheld knitting device often used by kiddies to make a rope by wrapping yarn around its prongs. If you're interested in a tutorial, check out MamaMoontime. My sister used to have one of these little guys when I was small and I always remember having a fascination with it. I had dolls

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It was a gorgeously sunny day in Canberra today. The birds were chirping, people (including public servants) were smiling and the Queen of England was out for a bit of boat action on Lake Burley Griffin.  The Queen and Prince Phillip were making their way from Yarralumla, across the lake to the Floriad Flower Festival. This is the Queen's 16th visit to Australia and, as the news keeps telling me,

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Hi Everyone! Hello Internet! I'm back!  I've just spent the last few weeks volunteering in remote Western Australia helping run a school holiday program for Indigenous children. My time has been filled with face-painting, paper mache pinatas, balloons, ball games, cookies and my most favourite....cuddles! I won't lie, it was pretty tough work. We started at about 7:30 am each morning and wrapped

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Just thought I would let you know that no new blog posts will be appearing for a while as I'm heading over to Western Australia for three weeks. I'll be in a remote Indigenous community helping out with a school holiday program for kiddies - lots of art and craft and fun! There won't be any mobile reception or internet so I'll be out of touch for a little while.  If you're interested in a

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There has been a bit toadstool-love in the little house over the past week. As you may remember, I bought a gorgeously puffy toadstool foot stool on the 18th as I'm currently addicted to unusual child-focused furniture. The footstool is doing great, even surviving a house full of kiddies on the weekend. It's standing in the corner of my hallway, happily reminding me not to be too serious about

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A day doesn't often go by without someone I know saying something like 'gosh, nothing ever happens in Canberra'. I guess part of the problem is that I'm surrounded my Melbourne and Sydney folk all day long!  I've often thought that one of the most pressing needs to the Canberra scene is a few more creative outlets. A few art classes here and there sparks the mind and excites the world around us

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419561959977481497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3042080677750759746.post-27686305170766516442011-09-18T20:09:00.003+10:002011-09-18T20:28:42.357+10:00

I just found this Etsy store and nearly fell off my chair! How amazing! Check out TinyBullys shop for more Dr Who goodies. 

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This is my new addition to the Little House. A toadstool footstool! I found him in a gift shop in the Canberra Centre (our local glossy, shopping mall) and he is made from a soft plastic with significant squishyness in his top half. After an amusing afternoon of him sitting on my work desk, he is now located at the bottom of my wooden staircase, providing some interest to the rather bland hallway

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So most cafes give you coffee, hot chocolate or chai latte with soy. Sometimes they even make you breakfast or fill you full of chocolate cake (yummy, yummy flashbacks). Well, on Saturday morning my local favourite, The Front Cafe, went one step further and gave me an enthusiastic poet. Known as the 'Cafe Poet' he visits The Front on Saturday mornings and sets up shop in the busy Lyneham hot

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This is a picture of one of my favourite pieces of Canberra's public art scene. You'll find it being quiet and camoflage-like in Garema Place, Civic. It's pretty casual, no flashy lights or plaque to tell you a long drawn out story. It's just cutlery on a grate. End of.  Love it.

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Today I received a smile from the other side of the world. What a lovely, unexpected surprise! It arrived in my letterbox in an envelope post marked San Francisco, California. Knowing no buddies in San Francisco I was quite confused and intrigued. My address had been written in an old fashioned script, with a snail drawn on the front. Inside was a small card on which a haiku read: hi jackie,

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I've been trying very hard to buy mostly handmade clothes and nearly all of my gifts handmade too. It's such joy to get something unusual or unique and also know that you've helped someone pursue their dreams. With such a good handmade store in Canberra and the online availability of Etsy, there really is no reason for me to buy mass produced nick nacks (although I am most happy for other people

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Do you have someone special that deserves a little bit of spoiling? I do. The Boyfriend had been particularly kind and thoughtful last week so I decided to make him a batch of love heart cookies to express my appreciation. Nothing says I love you more than 250g of butter! Looking around my kitchen I was a bit short of key ingredients, namely eggs, so I had to make this recipe up around my lack

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Anyone need an octopus? Well this one is for hire if you can spare the cash. I snapped him while walking past Smiths Alternative Bookstore in Civic (Canberra) last night. Great bookstore, great octopus.

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I like it when people think outside the box. There are so many easy ways to get creative everyday but it seems to take a special kind of person to say no to the mundane and try something new. I must be honest and raise my hand here as I too am guilty when it comes to thinking. I have been known to fall back into old habits because they are tried and tested companions and the risk is low.

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Ever wondered what happens in Canberra on a Saturday night? Well, people find new ways to amuse themselves with street art (yes, I am aware that the definition of 'art' is being used quite loosely here!). Last weekend, Boyfriend and I thought we would build some social capital by spreading the love for our bus stop. This photo is actually from the next morning when we were thrilled to see three

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At the moment, Boyfriend and I are bike-only people. To accommodate our many different activities there are numerous bikes lying all around our little house, clogging up the hallways and the spare rooms. I'm often tripping over them or using them to hang washing on!We have bikes for touring around on a sunny day, bikes for racing on the roads, bike for mountainous outings and even a cheap town

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This photo made me laugh so hard that I had to share it on the blog! Last night the Boyfriend was kind enough to bring me home some bright and happy tulips. Unable to find a vase, he decided to present them in the next best thing - a used milk carton which had been destined for the recycle bin! I was so impressed with his combination of crafty thinking and recycle effort. The milk carton holds

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My little house is slowly getting filled to the brim with retro furnishings and kitch creations. Sometimes I look at all the bits and pieces that I've collected from handmade stores and charity shops and I start to wonder if the Boyfriend really feels at home here at all. It's half his house on the bank statements but you wouldn't know it from looking around at the contents. I guess if you

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Fashion can bring us so many lovely feelings - the buzz from the hunt, bonding moments with our friends and, my personal favourite, the warmth of self esteem when you finally find something that fits just right! On the flip side however, this glossy industry can also bring us credit card debt, messy houses and the guilt of knowing you have a full wardrobe but also nothing in it you want to wear.

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Oh la la I am in paradise!No, I haven't returned to the crossiont capital (although this is not due from a lack of intense wishing). I am in fact residing in the beach side haven of Port Douglas in northern Queensland for the best event of all - a wedding! Two of the kindest people I know are here declaring their love for each other and I am most happy to support them by hanging out in my own

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It's always nice to get something a little extra. This surprise tiny teddy came with the Boyfriends coffee this morning and brought a smile to his face.The unexpected freebie seems to be a rarity in Canberra. Maybe business's all think we're boring public servants who can't experience joy but I think they would make a few extra coins if they followed The Front Cafes lead and gave out a biscuit or

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Portland, Oregon truly looks like the coolest place in the world to live! Roving reporter Chrissy has sent me some shots of a crafty project that she had been working on with a few of her neighbours. Sunnyside Piazza (intersection of 33rd Ave and Yamhill Street) is now once again a lively, bright sunflower due to a bit of creativity, a whole lot of community love and some buckets of super bright

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I thought it was about time I loaded up a few photos from the fabric district in Paris. My sister researched all these great shops and kindly played tour guide, directing me from one to the other (hint: travel with someone like this as you end up with a brilliant itinerary without having to do very much work at all!). So we caught the metro to the Montmartre area and went right at the foot of

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Winter is such a good time for crafternoon activities with a few like minded Brown Owls. In a warm community hall last Saturday, I had a brilliant time hanging out with some very clever girls and learning some new jewellery techniques. My super crafty cousin Simone led the workshop and showed us all how to cut, design, crimp and create new pieces from our recycled materials. Before the workshop

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It's really cold in Canberra at the moment. If we're facebook friends, then you're probably getting tired of me whinging about the winter....I know I am starting to annoy myself.So faced with another cold morning I decided to just stay in my warm bedroom and ignore the outside world. Avoidance! Forced Ignorance! Yay! I made a quick trip downstairs to grab some breaky and art supplies and then

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Hello Hello. My Dads been out and about lately and taken on the role of a roving crafty reporter. He snapped these shots below while wondering around the pretty streets of Tallinn, Estonia.I think the bicycle is just part of a marketing campaign for a wool shop however it's a bike covered in knitting so its won my heart.

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Today is Day 4 of my new diet. I was kinda hoping that I would be one of those people who adapts quickly to celery snacks and teeny tiny portions however it turns out that I AM NOT. In fact, I loved my life of pasta plenty and the transition is going slowly. The whole situation is full of teething problems (ha ha bad eating pun, yep I know that was sad but I haven't had a lot of sugar lately).My

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I think I missed a great opportunity by not being a teenager in the eighties. Not that I had much to do with the whole business, but if I had of been born earlier I think I would have loved the crazy hair and fabulously frocks. I like it how all the colours are so shiny and bright. And I especially love how you can stick giant bows on things and increase the size of the sleeves 500% in the name

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As Christmas is only six months away I thought I better start investigating some present options.My sister is always super organised and finds things throughout the year so this time, I thought I would try and be super too. Normally I am pretty relaxed about the whole thing. I generally head to Boarders a couple of days before my flight to Melbourne and check out the popular stock. But since the

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Opps! Looks like someone isn't going to be invited back to the New South Wales Art Gallery!Ha ha just kidding. This is a picture of L'altra figura (the other figure) by Giulio Paolini. Have a click here to get the full story.What a funny piece!

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I think someone should call the Gardening Australia police because I keep killing all my plants!Over the past year, I have been trying to turn my little courtyard into a lush, refreshing sanctuary but I've been struggling to keep anything alive for more than a few weeks. My nan even sent up a collection of about ten 'indestructible' planted pots however they're now all brown twigs and wilted

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When I was growing up my mum had a 'Women's Weekly Recipe Card Library' which I always viewed as THE treasure trove of cooking inspiration (especially the thrilling 'Favourite Cakes' section).The Library had its own filing box and was filled with hundreds of individual recipe cards, each with a very 70s picture on the front and the details printed on the back. The Library was divided into

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I came across this musician in the Paris metro and thought he was a real special dude. It had been a bit of a stressful afternoon but upon hearing his gentle voice I became completely calm after the first few notes. Sweet and relaxing! If your interested in listening to more, his name is Simon Carriere and he has real CD's and everything. I bought a three track disk and loving it - it's all in

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If you're ever searching for motivation or you just want to feel part of the arty, crafty world then get yourself to a gallery opening - ASAP!On Friday night I went to the opening of the ANU Centre for Continuing Education Exhibition. The standard of work was incredible! These people are short course students and do not necessarily have an artistic background but their work is insightful,

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Tonight a dream came true. Jackie and a real life Dr Who were in the same room...or theatre, which is really just a big room so I still think it counts.If you know me at all, you should know that I love Dr Who, not the old ones, but the new series which Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper brought back to the tellie in 2005. I love Dr Who for its futuristic thinking. I love all the

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I had a pure 'oh wow' moment yesterday when I went into a shoe shop on Edinburgh's Frederick Street.Check out these photos that I sneakily took - I needed hard evidence that these heels really existed and I just didn't dream them! The glamorous pieces of art are made by Irregular Choice and are just crazy crazy.I think my favourite ones are those with the tiny teddy bears. So cute.

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I was trying on some gorgeous, hand made skirts in Amsterdam when I noticed this message stamped into the wall of the ladies change room. Its rough positioning and uneven inking leads me to believe that there may be a stamping street artist on the loose. Watch out people!After pondering the message for a little while, I have decided to take it to mean that just being alive is, in itself, pretty

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I finished my book today.In a rather embarrassing moment, I found myself alone in a Spanish cafe with a few tears running down my cheeks as I read the final pages of Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Committed'. The book is essentially a study of marriage throughout history, what it has meant over the centuries and the roles with it. Liz provides the reader with all this information in an attempt to convince

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After a bus ride through the mountainous scenery between San Sebastian and Bilbao, I spent the afternoon at the Guggenheim Museum. What a treat!Full of modern art spectaculars, I was captivated for hours investigating it's treasures. My favourite installation was of 35 TV sets, each on a unique coffee/side table and each with a different retro-type chair in front of it (5 rows of 7). Each TV had

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I had some lovely company to share my breakfast with yesterday - some cute little sparrows! I was waiting for my train to San Sebastian when these fellows popped up to say hello. Although I think they were more interested in my bread than me, they kept me amused for ages. During the six hour train ride that followed I had plenty of time to make a little birdy video. I also watched most of season

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I am not too sure who Keith is but I really love his delicate graffiti. It seems so civilised and sweet.'Keith' is such a hard working kind of name. This leads me to think that you can't get angry at him for spray painting the neighbourhood as a 'Keith' would have a very good reason to have done so.These are two shots from a Paris walking tour to find dinner one night.

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Today is my one year blogging anniversary. I'm so surprised I have stuck with it for this long!I just wanted to say a big thanks to all those who have given me encouragement over the past 12 months and to those who have left me kind comments. I have loved every single one (especially those from Brad Pitt). I am a lucky girl to have such great friends and family!Yay, I think a big Parisian

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Last night was my final sewing class at Sweat Shop Paris. After spending just a few days at their machines and cutting table, I am feeling super inspired! The shop has a 'student cafe decked out with op shop furniture' kind of vibe - so inviting and comfy.If you are ever in Paris, I strongly advise visiting Sweat Shop. The girls who run it have such a relaxed, anything is possible attitude and

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French diet coke bottles are so cute!My sister snapped this shot at La Grande Epicerie which is a giant food hall in Paris. Its a fancy pants place - think of the David Jones food area but a zillion times bigger.The bottle was designed by Karl Largerfeld, who my sister assures me is a fashion institution. Personally, I have never heard of him but I do buy a lot of my clothes at the Lyneham op

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A good friend of mine put this picture on his facebook the other day and it really got me giggling! It seems to be doing the rounds of the internet at the moment but I could not resist putting it up on my blog as well. Go Dr Who. You are ace!

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For me, holidays are meant to be active time! Perhaps this is slightly neurotic but I love coming home from a trip with real sense of achievement. Otherwise, I start to worry about if I have used my time wisely or not and then I waste time worrying and then nothing gets done at home either.And so today I entered the world of the Sweat Shop in Paris. At Sweat Shop you can take sewing classes or

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A fabulous artist made me laugh out aloud today with her terrifically, twisted creations. Her name is Patricia Waller and I found some of her postcards on my grand day out to the Pompidou Centre. Waller is a Chilean born, Berlin based artist who uses crochet to create hilarious toys. Many of the shots below come from a collection called 'How to Kill Your First Love'. What a great name!This may

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I was lost for hours yesterday, walking through the streets of Amsterdam just hoping that somehow I would end up back at my hotel before nightfall. I guess this is why people generally take boyfriends on holidays with them. I must put him on my packing list next time. Boyfriend has a brilliant sense of direction, I clearly have none whatsoever.I must admit though, there was one super dooper

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I'm not exactly sure what this guy is trying to download but it must be a big file. It's probably one of those you tube videos on quilt making, they can take ages.

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Sitting in my twenty pound hotel room last night at Heathrow airport, a beautiful story popped up on the television. Finally! The news had something positive to report and it brought some much needed joy to my questionable surroundings (a kettle in the bathroom is never a good idea).The story was of a crafty couple, German pensioners Volker and Christa Kraft who, for over forty years, have been

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I'm at Dubai International Airport waiting for my plane to London. In true Jackie style, I was two hours early and am still the only person here. Boyfriend finds this trait of mine rather annoying, I do see his point and sympathise.The airport is huge. It took me 45 minutes to walk from the end of the check-in process to Gate 123 where I currently sit. Surely there is a point where things just

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So today I went on a desert safari to the Hatta Mountains through Oman. It was a delightful day out exploring a new countryside, like none I had ever seen before. My fellow travellers and I went over sand dunes, swam in a wadi, patted camels and had lunch at a fancy pants hotel. It was all good....apart from the fact that there was no obvious crafty angle for me to blog about! The tour guide had

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Dubai's textile souk, or market, is not what I expected. For some reason, too much TV probably, I thought the souk would be full of small market vendors, each with their card tables set up, and loud voices yelling out to attract the customer. I have seen many markets like this throughout the world and so thought Dubai would be the same.But I was very wrong. Like so many other aspects of Dubai,

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My eyes are getting very heavy as I write this. I could put my glasses on to ease the tension however I think my poor little peepers might be too far gone to recover! I have been in transit over the past 24 hours and, as a result, not much sleep has been had. Perhaps in total I have had about three or four hours but for someone who normally has ten per night, this has been a struggle. Surely

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I hit the shops yesterday and had a ball at Melbourne's Bridge Road aka factory outlet funland of fantastic-ness!So you might say that this was a rather silly idea as I am heading off to Europe tonight and my suitcase is full already, however two little words are going to help me out 'Australia Post'. Although I would love to take them with me, I think my new items will need to be posted up to

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Driving through Camberwell in Melbourne with my friend Rachel, a certain sight caught our eyes with amazement!Walking down the sidewalk was a man made of cardboard. This confident cardboard yeti was just plodding along through the leafy suburb, intimidating a senior or two as he went. His outer shell appeared to be long strips of cardboard attached with glue and he was accompanied by several

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I can not believe that I am actually off work for six weeks!I think my mind is still ticking over in work mode, considering all the things I could have wrapped up better and the file paths that I could have sent along to colleagues however I think I am on the road to switching off and relaxing. For instance, if I was totally in work mode, I would have realised that the sentence before this one

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What a bother I have been in lately!Things have just been so busy, especially with work which has littered with stressful public speaking engagements. I am not a fan of the whole public speaking shenanigan, but have tried to take to this 'development opportunity' with enthusiasm and determination. Its amazing how comfortable and loud I can be in a small group but as soon as a microphone and

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Does anyone else remember Art Attack? It was a kids craft show that ran through the 90's until about 2007. Always full of splashy colour, I loved all the crazy projects and the British accent.I found a great Art Attack project today on making ancient Egyptian pictures. Apparently coffee and PVA glue are the secret ingredients. Magic.

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My holiday is fast approaching and it's not long now until I hop on that plane and head off on my crafty trip of European fabric shops, galleries and pastries. In fact, there are only 12 days (ten working days) until I depart from the little house on my adventure. A part of me is nervous about leaving the Boyfriend (yes, I know this is sad!) and my pot plant garden however I am starting to get

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I found this street-art gem on the youtube today. It's a little bit freaky but very entertaining. Investigate at www.blublu.org

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This is my Friday night beer and my Saturday morning vase for a daisy or two.He has a big belly and I guess I will as well if I have too many!

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